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Sunday, September 5, 2010

amnemonic, dustdevil & crow: what I did for summer vacation

This summer has been a particularly enjoyable and productive one. While completing the azwarm album and the boom dispenser remixs project (as I have mentioned previously), I was honored to be asked to collaborate on the newest Dustdevil & Crow album, while speaking softly you can hear the insects sing. It was completed recently and is now available on the Free Music Archive. I have also added amnemonic over at the FMA (HERE). The FMA is a great resource, chock full of amazing music with easy access to high-quality MP3's. It also allows you to create custom mixes with an easy to use interface. I have created a mix with both while speaking softly you can hear the insects sing and amnemonic that will allow you to listen to or download both albums in one click. You can also easily embed this player or send it to your friends to help us get the word out (always much appreciated).

For those audiophiles out there who are looking for lossless versions of either of these albums, well, of course, they are available. Bendle has put both Dustdevil & Crow albums up at his bandcamp page for free (along with lots of other goodies), and, of course, all the aboombong releases are available in lossless formats on bandcamp (name your price) as well. Don't forget that I will email a special access code to anyone naming a price of $5 or more that is good for limited edition bonus material from amnemonic. You can also get access to this bonus material by donating directly using the "donate" buttons here at Pen & Mallet, or the "tip the artist" button at the Free Music Archive.

This blog mainly shares music that I have been directly involved in creating over the last 3 decades. I will endeavor to be diligent in giving credit to my collaborators. If you played on one of these tracks and haven't heard from me...drop me a line in the comments and let me know how you are doing.

Most of the works posted here will be under a creative commons license. Feel free to distribute them FOR FREE (re-post on your blog, embed the IA player, upload to a different server, or whatever). I would, of course, appreciate a link back here.

If you are interested in a commercial use/re-issue of any of the works presented here, leave me a note in the comments and we will work something out.

Friends-of-the-show posts are works by my talented friends (& family) that have given me permission to promote their efforts. From time to time I'll also drop suggestions for other DIY musicians I run across that I think you'd enjoy.aboombong on facebook

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth - Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus(1493 - 1541)